Author: HAP FRY Special to the Gazette
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Meat-packing firm in northern Colorado agrees to $4 million child labor settlement
GREELEY • The nation’s largest meat packing processor, JBS USA Food Co., which is one of Colorado’s best-known employers, has agreed to pay $4 million to assist individuals and communities affected by unlawful child labor practices nationwide. The U.S. Department of Labor announced the agreement to address child labor violations by JBS through a release on…
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Bringing in the New Year with a jump onto the Dry January bandwagon
FORT COLLINS • Unlike five years ago, Taylor Strope won’t be heading into the New Year, and, more specifically, Dry January with any trepidation. This time around, Strope, a Fort Collins resident and owner of Mountainside Events, has a more nuanced plan for what will be her second foray into Dry January with the end…